text: Sabatier studied at the École Normale Supérieure, starting in 1874.  Three years later, he graduated at the top of his class.  In 1880, he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree from the College de France.
  In 1883 Sabatier succeeded Édouard Filhol at the Faculty of Science, and began a long collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Senderens, so close that it was impossible to distinguish the work of either man.
  They jointly published 34 notes in the Accounts of the Academy of Science, 11 memoirs in the Bulletin of the French Chemical Society and 2 joint memoirs to the Annals of Chemistry and Physics.
  The methanation reactions of COx were first discovered by Sabatier and Senderens in 1902.
  Sabatier and Senderen shared the Academy of Science's Jecker Prize in 1905 for their discovery of the Sabatier–Senderens Process.
  After 1905–06 Senderens and Sabatier published few joint works, perhaps due to the classic problem of recognition of the merit of contributions to joint work.
  Sabatier taught science classes most of his life before he became Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Toulouse in 1905.